ferenghi

plural ferenghis · plural ferenghies · alternative Ferenghi

1. A white westerner.

   Charkosh held it up for all to see. "Among ferenghis," he said, "it is called 'Greek Fire.'"

   2007, Lloyd Alexander, The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio, page 277

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   The appearance of Ferenghi ladies in the Holy City will be an innovation that will fairly eclipse the introduction of the bicycle.

   1887, Thomas Stevens, chapter XII, in Around the World on a Bicycle, Vol. II: From Teheran to Yokohama, London: Sampson Low […] , page 241

   The tenacity, perseverance, and indefatigability of Britons have always deeply impressed the Asiatic; and i have had the opportunity of witnessing more than one Turks, Persian, or Afghan, who, in spite of being impregnated with the ideas of the Mohammedan Nirvana, began by expressing his amazement at the unremitting activity of the British Ferenghis, and concluded with the remark: "Verily these Ferenghis are a most remarkable people!"

   1891, Scottish Geographical Magazine, page 294

   He has despatched us with the army in company with our brother Said Al-Khilafa Saiyfid Mohamed Al-Mutawakkil to the Eastern tract for the purpose of safeguarding it from the guile of the frustrated Ferenghis and for making a severance of the relations existing between them and the Sunni Arab Chiefs.

   1916, Ahmed Nasir Ar-Rounel, Letter to Sheikh Mohsin bin Farod, Al-Aulaki

   Suleiman's people, many of whom could barely stomach the sight of the ferenghis, with their sunburnt faces and arrogant bearing, their heavy chain hauberks and their long swords.

   2006, Jack Whyte, Knights of the Black and White